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The reports of Instagram's death are greatly exaggerated.

(Also hashtags are working as normal for me)

You could discuss controversial photographers like Bill Henson or Andres Serrano

Yeah, I'm a big fan. A great defender and also I love the way he takes the game on with his runs down the middle.

They have to prove that you did use their stuff, not the other way around.

But a lot of contracts (not just photography ones) will have a clause about not working second jobs without permission.

My gut feeling here is that artistic photography - landscapes etc would be fine but more mundane stuff like portrait photography and certainly anything that overlaps with what you do at work would be questionable.

But obviously look at your contract.

I think my nikkor 105mm f/1.4.

Yes, it the focal length has some limitations but I make it work.

I mean a sample of 5 is pretty small, but the UK had a lot more rain than average in September and October so maybe softer grounds make it more likely for players to lose control when they're competing flat out. 🤷🏻

I shoot outdoor sports but in terms of manual settings my process is:

Set shutter speed to something that will freeze fastest action (for me 1/1000), set aperture to something that will have a decent DOF and image quality (f/8), then set iso to auto.

If the light gets bad I'll reduce the aperture first and then the shutter speed but I leave the iso on auto because if it goes too high with my minimum settings I wouldn't have got a workable photo anyway.

I shoot sports photography at 500mm, f/8, generally shutter speed of 1/1000, and I set the iso to auto but if it's day time it never goes too high.

But in more challenging lighting you can change the shutter speed and aperture down obviously. But like if it's dark and I reduce the shutter speed to 1/200 or something I might get some bad pictures with motion blur but I'll still get some okay ones some of the time and it's either that or just stop taking photos.

I think the best lighting if the tanks aren't lit well enough would be a couple of underwater compatible led strips that you could put maybe in the front corners inside the tank and then try to block out any external light with the hoods people have mentioned but also turning off all other lights and closing blinds if appropriate.

1. I think it really depends on what look you're going for. I wouldn't have a set rule like that. And absolutely you have to make adjustments based on conditions for any "rule". In challenging conditions you make the best of it because if you rigidly followed rules you'd end up with no photos.
2. I think viewfinder if preferable but definitely if you've got a good reason to use the screen then do it. I use the screen rather than lying in the mud if I am eg taking an outside photo from a low angle. And I certainly would as well if I had mobility issues like you mention.
3. I mean if you have good lighting equipment and an idea in mind then use it. But again just make the best with what you have. But like the real top fine-art and fashion pros that use big lighting rigs take awesome photos. I don't think you could recreate eg Julia Fullerton-Batten's work without them.
4. I guess it depends what kind of photography you want to do. You probably wouldn't do magazine quality advertisement/fashion photography by yourself. It seems like that's the kind of course you've signed up for.
5. Mirrorless is probably better these days and I don't know that we'll see many (or any) new DSLRs. Nikon haven't brought a new model out since 2020 and for midrange ones it's even earlier.

For sporting events getting as much light as possible is pretty important because you're probably going to be shooting at a very fast shutter speed.

That being said I use a 200-500mm f/5.6 and can still avoid going too high with the iso (though mostly outside during the day) and I usually shoot at f/8 so I think f/4 is still going to be okay.

I do sports photography and I think maybe I get somewhere between 1 in 5 to maybe 1 in 10 if it's a bad day. But a lot of time the action is happening pretty quickly and you just take a shot hoping something exciting happens and usually it doesn't. But I'll have like 1000 shots or more after a session so it all adds up.